Child&#39;s garment



June 5, 1934. J. o sc 1,961,607

('JHILDS GARMENT Filed March 15, 1953 James A F' =rs -J INVENTOR {inATTORNEY 0 garment.

Patented June 5 1934 UNITED STATES PAET FFICE.

3 Claims.

My invention relates to childrens garments and has referenceparticularly to the type having a drop seat.

The present invention has for its object to provide an improved garmentof the drop seat type, in which the seat may be raised and lowered. in avery convenient manner, and in which the upper edge or" the drop seat isprevented from falling beyond a certain point below the waist line ofthe I accomplish these objects by means of a combination and arrangementof parts hereinafter described, set forth in the appended. claims, andillustratively exemplified in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure1 is a perspective View of the garment being worn by a small childshowing the seat in its lowered posi tion; Figure 2 is another View ofthe garment as it appears in the closed position of the seat; Figure 3is a perspective view or" the front and side oi the garment showing thedrop seat closed; and Figure 4 is a side elevational View of a portionof the garment and drop seat, the latter being shown in its loweredposition.

Referring to the drawing, 10 denotes the upper body portion of agarment, the front sections 11 thereof extending downwardly from theshoulders to include the leg portions 12. The front sections 11 are openat the front center from the neck opening to the crotch and a row ofbuttons or other fastening means 13 is used to separably attach thesections together. The back of the garment is provided with a drop seatsection 14 and the upper edge of the latter is provided with a band 15which extends from the side edges of the seat to provide straps 16adapted to extend forwardly around the sides of the garment atapproximately the waist line and across the front sections 11 wherebythey overlap and are detachably connected by means of buttons or othermeans 17 According to the present invention the straps 16 pass throughloop straps 18 arranged at opposite sides of the garment and in order toprevent the straps 16 from being pulled through the loops 18 when theseat is dropped, see Figure 4, a stop strap 19 is provided at each side,one end of the strap being permanently attached to the garment adjacentthe lower end of the loop 18, while the opposite end is secured to thecorner of the drop seat 14 in line with the projecting strap 16 of theband 15. It follows that the stop straps 19 are shorter in theirefifective length than the length of the straps 16 so that when the seat14 has been dropped, as shown in Figure 5, the free ends of the straps16 will still project through the loops 18 and may readily be drawnforward to raise and adjust the seat to its closed position.

The present construction is particularly applicable when built intogarments to be worn by very small children, because the arrangement ofthe straps 16 makes it unnecessary to provide buttons or other fasteningmeans to support the upper edge of the seat section i l. The child hasonly to draw the ends of the straps together to bring the seat to closedposition, the ends of the straps 16 being prevented from being pulledout of theloops 18 by the stop straps 19.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A garment having a drop seat, straps free at their outer ends andextending from and attached to the seat at their inner ends adapted tobe drawn about the front of the garment to support the seat in closedposition, said straps being capable of being free-d or any connectionwith the front of the garment and stop strap for each side of the seatattached directly to the latter at one end and at the other to thegarment, each stop strap being shorter in length than the seat strap.

2. A. garment having a drop seat, straps attached at one of their endsto and extending from the seat and adapted at their free ends to bedrawn about the front of the garment to support the seat in closedposition, loops at the sides of the garment to receive the free ends ofthe straps, and stop straps for the sides of the garment each stop strapbeing attached at one end directly to the garment adjacent the sidethereof and at the other to the seat at the point where the first strapjoins the seat, whereby the seat may be dropped to bring the stop strapstaut while the free ends of the seat straps still remain in said loops.

3. A garment having a drop seat, as claimed in claim 2, in which thestop straps are shorter in length than that of the seat straps.

JAMES A. FORSCH.

